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ACLU Freedom Network on Gay and Lesbian Issues
Freedom Network provides news items, campaign information and links to organizations dealing with Gay and Lesbian rights.
http://www.aclu.org/issues/gay/hmgl.html

Civil Rights and Discrimination Law Materials (Cornell University Law School)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/civil_rights.html/

The Civil Rights Project at Harvard
http://www.law.harvard.edu/groups/civilrights/mission.html/

The Disability Rights Activist
THE DISABILITY RIGHTS ACTIVIST brings together much of the information needed to enable anyone interested in the rights of disabled people to work for those rights.
http://www.teleport.com/~abarhydt/

Equal Protection Law Materials (Cornell University Law School)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/equal_protection.html/

Federal Protections Against National Origin Discrimination
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/legalinfo/natorigin.htm

A Guide to Disability Rights Laws
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/cguide.htm/

Hate Crime Resources
http://www.ncjrs.org/hate_crimes/hate_crimes.html/

International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet
The Center will collect and present best practices in areas related to disability and accessibility issues. The Center will collect disability-related Internet resources, including resources that may be helpful to the disability community. These resources will be presented in a manner that is accessible to the widest user audience. The Center will develop and make available the techniques used to make these presentations and will assist those who wish to use our methods.
http://www.icdri.org/index.html

Pluralism Project at Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/

Prisoners' Rights (ACLU)
The following sites provide comprehensive or unique resources relating to the work of the ACLU in this issue area. While some of these sites are operated by organizations that work frequently in coalition with the ACLU, the sites may also include materials on positions we do not share.
http://www.aclu.org/issues/prisons/irprisons.html/

Scout Report on Civil Rights
http://gauss.cs.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/htsearch

State and Local Laws Protecting Lesbians and Gay Men Against Workplace Discrimination
http://www.aclu.org/issues/gay/gaylaws.html

U.S. Department of Justice. Hate Crime Statistics 1995-1999
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr.htm

Violence Against Women Office of the Office of Justice Programs, Federal Legislation and Regulations
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/regulations.htm/

Women's Rights: 1848 to the present
http://www.usinfo.state.gov/usa/womrts/



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